WINDMILL HILL

PUBLISHED BY Quercus

'Rich in charm and surprises' GUARDIAN 'Transporting and entertaining' SUNDAY TIMES 'A triumph' PHILIP PULLMAN 'Glorious' NINA STIBBE 'Compulsive & skilfully woven' CLARE CHAMBERS 'Truly memorable' JO CANNON

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MAGPIE LANE

PUBLISHED BY Quercus

'The word of mouth success. . .Riveting, twisty, page-turning stuff' -GUARDIAN Picked as one of the best novels of the year by the Guardian, BBC Radio 4's Open Book, the Telegraph & Good Housekeeping magazine.

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Lucy Atkins is an award-winning British author who has written five novels, most recently WINDMILL HILL (2023), a summer book pick for both the Guardian and the Observer. Her previous novel, MAGPIE LANE (2020), was picked as a Book of the Year by the Guardian,  Telegraph, Good Housekeeping, and BBC Radio 4 Open Book. Many of Lucy’s works are published internationally and THE NIGHT VISITOR (2017) has been optioned for television. 

Lucy teaches on the Creative Writing Masters degree at the University of Oxford. She is a book critic for the Sunday Times & the Guardian, has judged the Costa Book Awards and has written features and reviews for UK newspapers including the Guardian, Times, Sunday Times, Telegraph, TLS and various magazines

Before becoming an author, Lucy worked for Amnesty International (UK), and then the Times Literary Supplement. She studied English at Oxford University and was a post-graduate Fulbright Scholar to the USA. She has lived in Boston, Seattle and Philadelphia, and is now based in Oxford with her family. 

Find Lucy on Twitter @lucyatkins

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